Obama's Crass Campaign Ad Shows Contempt For Young Women Voters

Election '12: What kind of a campaign uses crude sexual double entendres to pitch for young women's vote? A desperate one, of course, and that's the Obama campaign. Its new ad shows contempt for young voters.

Lena Dunham, creator of the HBO hit show "Girls," stars in an official campaign ad, attempting, as the vaunted voice of her generation, to win votes for President Obama from young women.

"Your first time shouldn't be with just anybody. You want to do it with a great guy ... someone who really cares about and understands women," the tattoo-festooned hipster coos, citing his support for birth control — odd, given that any cad looking for an easy night without a relationship would do the same.

"Think about how you want to spend those four years. In college-age time, that's 150 years. It's also super uncool to be out and about, when someone says, 'Did you vote?,' and you say, 'No, I wasn't ready,'" she presses.

So voting for Obama is like sex, and voting for Obama is somehow cool, and don't bother your pretty little heads about things such as issues.

If that isn't an insult to young women, what is? Young voters today face tremendous hurdles getting jobs out of college, stand to inherit the liability for Obama's vast debt, and face an empty Social Security pot when they retire.

They deserve to get some answers on these issues. Yet the Obama crowd has them all pegged for creatures who can't think in any terms but sex.

It's a contempt for voters that's not new. It's already been employed by the worst sort of democratic-autocrats, such as Vladimir Putin in his last campaign, and Daniel Ortega during his Sandinista downfall in the 1990 election, in which his "do it for love" pitch failed and he was thrown out.

The Dunham ad might get some votes for Obama, but it takes campaign discourse to a low place and dumbs down U.S. politics.

This isn't leadership. This is smoke and mirrors that conceal a poor record and reveal the Obama campaign's meager regard for the young.

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